India will emerge among top 3 economic powers in 25 years ?

Watching my nation grow at such a fast pace and also being a part of it is really a great feeling. What adds the flavor to this sweet dish is the global recognition that India is getting. Take for an example the words by Mr Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corporation, "If India continues to grow at over eight per cent, once can do the maths and see how long it takes for India to come in the top three economies worldwide. Countries like India and China will have faster rate of growth than the developed nations. Depending on how you do the maths it is inevitable, in 20-25 years".

Quite impressive!!! Undoubtedly, India is heading towards topping the list of the countries with the largest man power but

What bothers me:

• Is that it also tops the list of the countries with the largest IDLE man power with a very huge percentage of people sitting on the "bench" waiting to realize their potential. As quoted by anonymous, "I work very hard to get some work to do in the busiest company of the world".

• Is that a country, which is proud to have an ex-prez in the form of a teacher, a learned professor & missile man, Dr. APZ Abdul Kalam, the person who is so much dedicated towards teaching and motivational for entrepreneurial skills, is lacking the basic infrastructure to provide the children of the country with even the basic and elementary education.

• Is that a country so rich in its knowledge and culture is so poor when it comes to provide the higher education to its citizen.

• Is that a country which should aim to make the IITs, the institution resembling the excellence in engineering education in the country at graduation level, the institutions providing only the higher education and focusing more on R&D has been indulged in the dirty vote bank game and is taking so much time in establishing new IITs / upgrading the institutes to that level. Are we even clear about our air with respect to these institutions?

• Is that a person really in need of some help from the government for his / her uplifting in the society kept on waiting till he dies because he is from so-called higher class while a person who has already availed this benefit from the government not just once or twice or thrice but even more than that is still getting those benefits not only for him but all of his wards and relatives as well for he being a member of so-called lower class. What even more bothers me is that the situation is getting better but in the negative side.

• Is the scarcity of the teachers in the educational institutions and the absence of students in the classrooms.

Anyways, but despite of all these points I am sure that we'll be amongst the top 3 economic powers of the world in the next 25 years. Right Mr. Barrett? :)

Guys, we are doing great!! Really good!! What's your problem anyways? Don't you like the system up and running as we have in here? I have given it enough thoughts, now its your turn.

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